Bullet-Proof Bicycle (feat. Matt Parker) - Objectivity 203

[@menachemsalomon]

I like the idea of some guy in 1858 writing about how much better it was in the "good old time." I would not at all be surprised to find someone from that good old time complaining to _his_ friend about a yet earlier time when things were better.

[@davidrenton]

is that Keith Rocking a velvet Jacket, the man got style.

[@piranha031091]

2:13 : "Surely it was a mistake that nobody built one". Somebody ring Colin Furze, he can fix that mistake!

[@lebesnec]

He recently build a retractable shield that looks exactly like the one on the drawing.

[@piranha031091]

@@lebesnec I know, that's why I immediately thought of him!

[@AsbjornOlling]

I think I'll only need about, say... twenty or so more excellent maths videos, before I'll surrender and buy the book.

[@etothepie2704]

I bought Humble Pi the second it came out, and got it delivered on Pi Day.

[@Yupppi]

That thick book of cheese mistakes is wonderful. Who would ever think of writing that detailed book on inferior cheese. I'm so happy to know that it exists.

[@insu_na]

I bought Humble Pi while watching this video. You make good ads, Brady.

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

Cool, it's Matt Parker and his mate Bradley Haran! ;)

[@realspacemodels]

I bought Humble Pi for my dad for Father's Day. He was a Professor and did a lot with statistics. It's a perfect gift for him.

[@barneytrubble]

Surely the main mistake with the bicycle is that it's a tricycle!

[@jonathanrichards593]

I pause these videos to read the text on all the pages. At 3:14 (Pi time!) I read the verso page, and now I can't unread it.

[@ky-gp4sz]

So if we buy it Matt stops doing the videos and we get less Matt videos? That sounds like an incentive to not buy the book!

[@iambiggus]

How about we all buy the book, but tell him that we didn't! He has to make the vids, and we get a good read ... It's a real Parker Square of a win/win!

[@smaakjeks]

I think he meant videos of him plugging his book.

[@trulyinfamous]

I want to read that cheese book. I hope they have it digitized as it is of great cultural significance. (Seriously, I'd love to see more of the archives digitized. Nothing lasts forever, despite how much effort the RS puts into preservation, but data on a server doesn't decay like paper does.

[@B.M.0.]

This is hilarious. The group dynamics are amazing, I would love to spend the day with these three smartasses.

[@stefanklass6763]

You know who would love to build the bulletproof bike? Collin Futze. I’m dead serious, he’d love this, he builds all kinds of wacky things like this.

[@scheerBOM]

You are a Human Person

[@culwin]

Blessed are the cheese makers.

[@tylisirn]

0:29 - Matt Parker's book, on the shelf in the vault of the Royal Society! If only it was for real :P

[@vrraghy]

5:12 Matt P: "That's phenomenal!" Me: "Transformational too!"

[@_rlb]

I got the notification for this video while reading Matts first book.

[@acidjumps]

I just opened mine and opened KZbin while eating and saw this video

[@therabbits69]

I just learned a week or so again that I have a first cousin (Shannon) who was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Australia and married a man named Peter who lives around Perth. They visited here not to long again, was fantastic. Automatically thought of Brady.

[@rewrose2838]

Came for the Matt of the Parker Square, stayed for the Parker cycle

[@iamgerg]

Remember, Edam is the only cheese that's made backward.

[@PassionPopsicle]

Bwahahahahahahahahaha

[@FlyingSavannahs]

!ynnuf ooT

[@rarrawer]

You should do a video where you make and test one of these bikes. I'd like to see the difficulties that would be faced converting the drawings into an actual physical item, and some range tests of a dummy getting shot using period-similar ammunition at to see how well it might have worked

[@Kombivar]

The book Humble Pi is awesome, it's such a rabbit hole that after a while you are on page 290 - seriously very educational and fun, except the moments when everybody dies. :D

[@kdawg3484]

2:14 "Surely, it was a mistake that nobody built one." Internet, did you hear that? That's a challenge. Do your thing.

[@ragnkja]

kdawg3484 I don’t think we need the entire internet. One bloke from Lincolnshire - specifically Colin Furze - should be enough.

[@WarmongerGandhi]

First place is squaring the circle. Second place is a bullet-proof bicycle. Third place is you're fired.

[@Flea_ip]

"Humble Pi" is a fantastic title for such a book!

[@rewrose2838]

Given all the reformatting of calendars I'm surprised nobody was bothered by the lack of 2 days in February 😂

[@shugaroony]

That cheese book sounds a hoot, I'd love to read it!

[@krisweinschenker598]

Matt's book is a good read. And the cheese stands alone.

[@SouravTechLabs]

1:00 Ok so I'm from Calcutta - Kolkata!!

[@Babarudra]

Humble Pi, as presented at The Royal Society!

[@rfldss89]

keith's british sass is most certainly never misguided and always welcome on objectivity.

[@maxshiraz3447]

"Don't make cheese in the toilet". Wisdom for future generations.

[@cybercat1531]

So this is what Sekiros Bicycle looks like?

[@pranamd1]

Wow....that bullet-proof bike turned out to be a much less terrible idea than I thought. I feel almost clickbaited.

[@iTeerRex]

If I ever make it to England, Royal Society well be one of my top places to visit if not the first. I don't want to spend hours in there tho, but days upon days til they call the Queen's guards, and tell me you are not welcome here anymore. XD

[@iambiggus]

I definitely would have a beer or three with Matty, along with Grimes and Dr Becky. They would make fantastic pub mates. You go without saying Brady, so don't be jelly :-)

[@zockertwins]

Everything is bulletproof until it breaks

[@Veptis]

haven't finished your first book yet, so won't buy the 2nd one now. but I might to it if you do a DeepSkyVideos x Numberphile crossover on very-long-baseline interferometry in a lecture room?

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

If it's to be found in Australian bookstores, I'll certainly pick up Matt's likely quite mirthful maths book.

[@aL3891_]

Keith had to whey in there at the end..

[@FlyingSavannahs]

Curd you repeat that? I didn't hear you the first time.

[@UpcycleElectronics]

You Munster! Kieth obviously had some spicy zingers ready for us.

[@Yupppi]

Parker square also has its brother in Parker calendar?

[@DasGanon]

I don't know Keith, ending on a pun has always been cheesy.

[@heyandy889]

lol gottem

[@peterfireflylund]

What a snazzy tie Keith has :)

[@Sam-lr9oi]

A book about errors with a plane on the cover is incredibly unfortunate timing with the whole 737 MAX issue (corporate negligence, basically murder).

[@captbeardy]

Gentlemen, that is a tricycle, not a bicycle. Ironic given Matt is publicising a book about mathematical errors. 😁

[@davidioanhedges]

A Tricycle is just a Bicycle with a rounding error ...

[@uxigadur]

When you go for the cheese and still fail.

[@MNalias]

I like how Matt, the inventor of the Parker Square, made a book about math errors.

[@obsidian9998]

I will buy the book.

[@afluffywhitekitty8589]

Diggin the shaved look, Matt.

[@michaelharrison1093]

American cheese is available in three different colors: White Yellow Orange

[@sevret313]

Brady is really everywhere you go.

[@sean..L]

Yeah, it’s pretty much a meme at this point that Matt wants you to buy his book.

[@Wordsnwood]

I think you should do more reading from the cheese book... ;-)

[@Chr0nalis]

Defining the circle in terms of its diameter was the biggest mistake.

[@Epinardscaramel]

4:16 the FORGOTTEN French Revolutionary calendar?? We're in year 227 :)

[@jonathanrichards593]

CCVII, ITYM!

[@arcanics1971]

Edam well knew better than to start with cheese puns! Stiltons of people will no doubt pun away regardless.

[@CheesedoffBlog]

That ending was... ... cheesey 😏

[@Wecoc1]

0:20 Ok, I'm not buying his book so he keeps doing these videos :) Matt, that's not how marketing works

[@calebgrassi7494]

I like keith's suit; looking very fresh

[@Orxenhorf]

Watching this February 29th, 2020

[@berni1602]

Quite interesting ideas, of course they're silly now, but which ideas would be seen as dumb in 3 centuries? I have a question, in many books printed arround the 17th century and before I see they use the "f" character where there's an /s/ sound, for example in the book you get to see Paft, Prefent and Future. However, there's a character for the "s" and they use it too, what's the difference then? I've seen this in Spanish and it's the first time I see it's a phenomenon that happens in English too.

[@treborely]

Im expecting a few Parker Squares here

[@cyrilio]

I hope someone builds a bulletproof bike

[@FrottyZaoldyeck]

Nice Matt.

[@sam08g16]

Does the book cover urinary tract as well?

[@RollaArtis]

In England when the calendar was changed in 1752, it is said there were riots because people thought that 11 days had been stolen from their life.

[@ragnkja]

RollaArtis That is why the tax year in the UK begins when it does. The first day of the year used to be 25 March (yes, I know, beginning the year in the middle of a month is madness), and when they skipped 11 days, they also had to shift the beginning of the tax year by the same amount of time, otherwise those riots would have been worse.

[@edgeeffect]

Being a Wiltshireman myself... I want to read about Wiltshire cheese... I didn't know we had any.... (oooh arrr)

[@Tuning3434]

MAAATTTTTT!!!!!! What if MATTSS goes Wrong!

[@barneytrubble]

The mistake with Edam cheese is that it is madE backwards, lol

[@no_handle_required]

How the hell are there only 157k subscribers on this channel? All the crap on youtube that goes viral and something like this, which is legit, gets this few? Humanity is dumb.

[@itsdonaldo]

I had a cheese pun but I camembert

[@khilorn]

Tillamook cheese. Best cheese ever.

[@douro20]

Russia was still using the Julian calendar up until Vladimir Lenin changed it by decree in 1918.

[@ChadDidNothingWrong]

"It doesn't mention the squeezyness"

[@hughegentry8255]

Rather as America has redeemed its reputation for inferior beer of late with the flourishing 'craft beer' industry perhaps we should encourage our colonial cousins to emulate the locally diverse fromages of France. We just need to come up with a snappy name for the marketing bods to get behind. How about the American 'Cottage Cheese' Industry? Sounds really upmarket and classy!!

[@SteveGouldinSpain]

American cottaging?

[@Knight_Astolfo]

Why would you want to stop!?

[@centurysword]

I thought it said bicycle-proof b-something

[@mojosbigsticks]

Oh go on then....

[@bigJovialJon]

Couldn't think of a gouda cheese pun?

[@AsbestosMuffins]

bicycle cavalry has never not been a questionable use of highly trained infantry they only kinda worked in ww1, not really in ww2 and never any time before that

[@ObjectivityVideos]

I did not know this. Did they incorporate these bullet-proof umbrellas?

[@MarkTillotson]

You needs your hands free obviously, therefore unicycle cavalry is a much more workable proposition! The enemy is unable to take the threat seriously and gets overwhelmed!

[@wabbasMEpern]

I just farded.

[@Tevildo]

wabbas - You are a reader of Frazz, and I claim my £5.

[@RobertSpaw]

Don’t disrespect our Kraft pasteurized prepared cheese product. Our American “cheese” (for legal reasons, not real cheese) is just as good as anyone’s.

[@andywright8803]

They should write a book about why American chocolate tastes of puke. No offence implied. It's just a fact

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

There are a lot of ghosts haunting Britain because they are bitter about missing out on their birthdays when they skipped two weeks to switch to the Gregorian calendar. :-\ You really needed to read a book to learn that American "cheese" isn't very good (or even actually cheese)? 🤨

[@Rabbit-the-One]

Already got the book. Stop pestering about it. I won't buy another.

[@ObjectivityVideos]

You realise the video is not made just for you, right?

[@stevethecatcouch6532]

@@ObjectivityVideos Well, I do now. Thanks for destroying the illusion.

[@Goodvvine]

The end was so cheesy Ok I'm gone

[@Kombivar]

Swiss cheese :D

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

I think if Brady had finished with a cheese pun it would have been more than Keith could camem-bear. I'll show myself out.

[@ThomasRelaX]

Calendar changes during the 1750's ? I'm not knowledgeable on the changes during this period. Could someone perhaps elaborate. I'm to lazy to google. Plus, it might be interesting to some people on here. :)

[@arcanics1971]

They cut several days (I seem to remember it was 11) of one September- I think- to bring us in line with the rest of the civilised world. Edit: It was 11 days, in September 1952. I Googled it.

[@jonathanrichards593]

On any *nix operating system command prompt, type 'cal 9 1752'. Weird, huh?

[@VitalayManin]

2^2.147.483.647 = ... -1= PRIME

[@josiahjulin1277]

How dare you call cheese that comes from a pump and is iridescent orange inferior. It will outlive all of you.

[@ChrisSPCs]

Unbrielievable.

[@garrysekelli6776]

I clicked cause i want to buy a bullett Proof bycicle. Was highly dissapointed.

[@macro820]

The end was cheesy, greetings from America, why is our cheese so squeezy? I don't care for it either.

[@UltraRik]

thurd

[@munjee2]

Matt Parker white

[@munjee2]

Is in Walter white

[@tramsgar]

A bit pushy, perhaps?